Javier Velásquez
Ángel Javier Velásquez Quesquén (born 12 March 1960) is a
Peruvian lawyer and politician. A prominent member of the
Peruvian Aprista Party, he has served in
Congress between 2001 and 2019, previously serving from 1995 to 2000. In
Alan García's second presidency, Velásquez was sworn as the third
Prime Minister of Peru of the administration, succeeding
Yehude Simon in 2009. He resigned his post in 2010 with the intention to run for the
Peruvian Aprista Party presidential nomination later that year. Although not selected as the nominee, he was part of the presidential ticket of
Mercedes Aráoz in which he was the candidate for First Vice President until her withdrawal from the election in January 2011. In 2016, he was reelected for a fifth term in Congress, representing the
Lambayeque Region under the
Popular Alliance which consisted of the
APRA and
PPC.
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